The PC market declined again in 2016, for the fifth straight year in a row. Sales in 2016 were less than 75% of what we saw in 2011, and depending on which analysts you listen to, 2017 won’t be much better.

Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 patch breaks multi-monitor gaming and the current workarounds are inadequate. How about using that telemetry data to flag users who shouldn’t install a given update, instead of making them all mandatory?

Microsoft rolled out a new Insider Preview build this week, with new options for deferring updates and preventing driver updates from being installed alongside new features and security fixes — but only certain users are able to access these controls. Microsoft needs to make them available to all users, from the get-go.

Consumer Reports’ MacBook Pro tests uncovered an unusual bug, which Apple will patch in an upcoming version of macOS — but it’s not clear that the bug in question relates to generally low battery life that many MacBook Pro users have reported.

Somehow CES gets larger every year. It has now grown way beyond consumer electronics, into nearly every corner of high-tech. After six days at press events and the show itself, here are some of our favorite highlights.

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